<-- This is a cuckoo roller. It can be found in the Perinet Reserve.
Anna, Megan, and I wake up at 7 in the morning to be ready to get a car ride from the Hotel Colbert to the reserve of Perinet. There Perinet reserve is located in the Eastern part of Madagascar. It is about 145 kilometers from Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital. Perinet is a rain forest that tourist can go to, to see the wildlife of Madagascar including many different kinds of birds like the blue coua, red-fronted coua, blue vanga, red-tailed vanga, velvet asity, sunbird asity, brown mesite, and the cuckoo roller. There are also many types of animals at the reserve, but the main animal that can only be found in Madagascar is the lemurs. There are many types of lemurs including the brown lemur, gray bamboo lemur, eastern woolly lemur, brown mouse lemur, greater dwarf lemur, streaked tenrec lemur, black-and-white ruffed lemur (which usually hides), and the famous Indri. The Indri is the largest kind of lemur and can be seen easily at the reserve. After visiting the reserve, we take another stop to the La Mandraka Nature Farm. La Mandraka Nature Farm is another place to view wildlife. We did not stay there very long because we left the Perinet reserve later than was planned and by the time we got to La Mandraka Nature Farm, we could only spend a few hours before they had to close. After, we went to the Vakona Forest Lodge and checked in for the night so that we could get an early start in the morning and explore the rest of the area. We ate dinner at the Vakona Forest Lodge. It was amazing. After dinner, we went to sleep in our room to get a fresh start the next day. We wake up early the next day, have breakfast at the Vakona Forest Lodge and get ready to go back to the Perinet Reserve to see the Indri Indris and to hear their haunting “singing” call. They were fascinating. We spent a couple hours there and when it was about 1 P.M., we drove to Tamatave (also known as Toamasina), one of the main seaports in Madagascar. We check into Hotel Neptune and have dinner there and stay the night.
